Kinda Miss that modem sound, though.
 

Man, who the fuck had internet in 1994?

We played with STICKS! and ROCKS! and we THREW EM AT THE KNOWITALL KIDS(me) and and when we didn't do that, we just BEAT THE CRAP out of each other!
I livvvvvveeeedd innnnnn theeeee gheeeeeetooooooo!

-Forsaken Lands. Meeeeeeeeemorieeeeeeees.

-My mom asking me to log off so she could make a phone call. lol

-Visiting porn sites that required you to connect to a different long distance phone number. Then getting caught when the charge showed up on the bill. Not that that ever happened to me.

-Having to choose from that list of a hundred connection numbers in my area. I learned more area codes that way.

I never had AOL, but I did use Televerket's Internet in an age before privatisation, an age where you dialed up and paid a hefty price per minute to connect to a chat room that as far as I knew was the only one in the world. Good times.

Not as good as later on when they introduced several chats. And this wasn't no fancy IRC or anything, you'd write in your message of 5000 characters or less (and some would get pretty close to that mark) and hit send and then scroll through the newest 100 messages. Also a funny tidbit: One of those chats for some reason displayed your IP as [Null]. Yeah, all the others showed your IP publicly with every message. I doubt that'd go over well today. But you could have any name you wanted, even if it was currently taken, unless they had bothered to register it. It was fun to use a bunch of spaces for your name and screw up the format - it looked like your messages were a part of the person above's.

The various rooms included, if memory serves, Entrance, Basement, Retro, Exile (don't ask), 25+, 35+, 45+ and even a row of numbered, "private" rooms where you'd get your freak on in password-protected haven. Unless some voyeur went and guessed your password. My favorite, however, was the Summer room. It was the etherical embodiment of a certain cool song by Fastball.

Years later I would learn there was a secret, unlisted room where all the cool kids chatted. And then they shut the whole thing down. Sigh.

Speaking of this, when my sister would refuse to get off the internet, I had a dialer set up that would disrupt the connection in one or two shots, and then I'd just log on myself.

Finding your first porn site and going "Aw, come on." before logging off because it told you you had to be eighteen or older to enter.

I remember how I learned how to read and write back in 1994.
Good times.

Oh, this is supposed to be about some internet shit, nevermind then.

What is this "AOL" you speak of?

Seriously, I don't even know. My first contact with the internet was in... '99? Yeah. On IE, I think. Did IE exist back then? Then it was probably on IE.

Though from what I hear, internet was preeetty crappy back then. Man, am I glad I wasn't using it back then. It'd have been so horrible. And I'd probably be fat, and smelly too. I'd be tainted. Man, I'm glad I didn't have to use it back then.

You're like... German or something, right, Gem?

That'd be why you don't know about AOL.

It stands for America OnLine.

I kinda doubt they'd have it in Germany.

We had it.

Yeah we had it here too. I never used it myself though. Having the internet anytime before 2000 was like "whoa, and how fucking rich are you??!!"